Windows in the morning from a high vantage point to a horizon of buildings, a glowing sun coming for the day, a glare through the glass with a bluish hue. Rain continues to pour. Outside the window are trees, a yard, a weathered fence, anything observed, and things imagined. There is something modern about looking out of the window towards the city that has bright morning sunlight and the hue from colored glass; below that high-rise apartment building, there is the city that is vast with the glare of the morning sun. That feeling evokes the sun, the beauty of colored Plexiglas, and an aura of futurism that contains purity. Perhaps looking through the window at certain times could ascribe various periods as one could imagine them to have been. Imagine looking through an old wooden framed window at Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii, a perfect dome shape volcanic cone. Again looking through that same window in another direction of a house with a great expanse of trees, an ancient rock wall conjuring nostalgia of the late nineteenth and twentieth century.
The shapes of windows can bring feelings of imaginary historical periods, an arched window telling of the Middle Ages in Europe or peering out of a Victorian period window evoking living in that period. A streamlined metal-framed window that gives a view, constructed concrete walls, and a garden.
Please think of the window that is cracked through age, a dandelion growing out of it, and the panes are filthy with age and weathering; this contains a beauty beyond, beautiful and ugly.
When tiny raindrops gather on a window, something is saying, comfort yourself and see the rain continue to imagine a sense of eternity, a comforting feeling of an overcast day. Or the importance of not being out there and having to get wet or perhaps gaining the memories of children playing in the rain or the city through a window with pedestrians with umbrellas. The flowers near a window with raindrops across its surface.
Some old and weathered windows could suggest a fairytale; by looking out of the window, ignoring reality, imagination could create an unearthly scene with mountains of mist, strange trees, people, and animals.
If the window is large, they can bring the outside into the interior of a structure one could stay in comfort without being affected by the weather. Security is looking through a window, small or huge, yet there could be anxieties about a window smashing to pieces during an earthquake or a falling tree. But a window is a window, and the only requirement is to enjoy what is seen from the window.
What is outside is brought inside through a window light casting hues that harmonize interior and exterior.
Robert J. Matsunaga
